IRWINDALE – Brandon Davis didn’t want to change his luck. The second-year Late Model driver at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale refused to alter his hood for Saturday night’s 40-lap Automobile Club of Southern California series main event. It still said, “Marry Me!”

Yes, his girlfriend accepted the proposal two weeks ago and he won the Twin 40 season openers, but keeping the hood unchanged paid off. He avoided an early-lap crash among the leaders and scored his third consecutive victory to remain undefeated in front of 1,200.

All he can do is hope that undefeated April streak remains intact.He qualifies for today’s SCCA World Challenge this morning, and will race in the series in a Ford Mustang this afternoon as part of the Long Beach Grand Prix.

“The pressure is always there,” he said of winning both. “We’re going to give them hell and see what we can do from there. It is a thrill to run Long Beach.”

It’s the second time that Davis has done the Irwindale-Long Beach double.

Davis, Travis Irving, and Mike Johnson of Covina were running three-wide for the lead in the early laps. Davis got the lead on the ninth lap and had enough of a lead so that when Irving, Johnson and Dylan Lupton bounced off each other exiting Turn 4, he avoided the wreck.

“We just missed the wreck,” he said. “We were very fortunate there. The car was amazing. I was worried about the invert. The question was how fast could we get to the front. We were trying to jump on it before the tires went away.”

Johnson was second and Irving third at the time of the crash. Irving never returned after the accident.

Devon Ostheimar, in his third race on pavement, was second. Kyle McGrady of Hesperia was third.

Gerrit Cromsigt, who didn’t make a qualifying attempt, used a lapped car and the Turn 2 corner to win the Vista Paint Super Stock series opener. He was on the tail of Eric Sunness for the final 15 laps of the 35-lap season opener. He could not get by Sunness until they hit lapped traffic on the 32nd lap.

Sunness chose to go outside of Larry Sampson of Covina, while Cromsigt went inside. Coming out of Turn 2, Cromsigt had the better line and got up in front of Sunness for the lead.

“Eight tires can corner sometimes better than four,” Sunness said. “We tried to pick the best lane for us.”

Third place was reigning series champion Rich DeLong III’s worst finish in 17 races since 2009.

“We gave it what he had,” the fastest qualifier said.

There were no yellow flags.

Reigning champion Chad Schug won his second Echo Equipment Legends race in as many starts, taking the lead on the 16th lap of the 35-lap main event. The race nearly finished green-white checkered when Chancellor Tiscareno spun on the 32nd lap. Schug had little trouble holding off second-place Brent Scheidemantle, whom he passed on the inside in Turn 1 to get the lead. Aaron Wells was third. The 12-car field was the smallest in track history.

In the 30-lap Ken Porter Auctions Open Comp nonpoints race, Joe Anderson, driving a Late Model, won. Figure-8 driver DeLong was second and Late Model driver Rick Crow, also in a Late Model, was third. Only the top tree finished on the podium.